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Factbox: Quotes on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination

(Reuters) - The following are quotes on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy was shot dead on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald as his motorcade passed through crowded Dallas streets.

(All quotes are from interviews by Reuters News except the excerpt from the 1963 CBS broadcast with Walter Cronkite)

BOB HUFFAKER, EYEWITNESS AND FORMER REPORTER AT KRLD RADIO IN DALLAS:

"It looked as though the entire city had turned up. It was really great. Dallas had shown that it really loved that president."

TINA TOWNER PENDER, THEN-13-YEAR-OLD EYEWITNESS:

"As the first gunshot sounded, I looked up to the building, thinking somebody was throwing firecrackers out of the window but I only had a split second before some stranger, and I still don't know who it was, pulled me to the ground."

HUGH AYNESWORTH, EYEWITNESS AND FORMER DALLAS MORNING NEWS REPORTER:

"Then I heard what I thought was a motorcycle backfiring, only it wasn't - it was the first shot and then in a few seconds, another shot and a third."

DR. RONALD JONES, FORMER CHIEF RESIDENT AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL WHO OPERATED ON KENNEDY:

"The president was on a stretcher. His arms were out on arm boards like this and Dr. Carrico, who was a second-year resident was trying to put a tube into his windpipe and then the tracheal tube to get an airway established, but the president was motionless. I never saw any movement. His eyes were open in a fixed stare."

"While the nation was grieving around its television sets, we were there on the scene reporting, unable to take out time to grieve or to even know what was being done in Washington D.C., the ceremony, the funeral and the sadness that the other people were living through their television sets. We who were broadcasting didn't see it all."